Age-related mate choice in the wandering albatross

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1099-1106

  Jouventin, Pierre ^a,c   Lequette, Benoît ^a,d   Dobson, F Stephen ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

^d Parc National du Mercantour   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; MATE CHOICE; SEABIRD;

CROZET ISLANDS; INDIAN OCEAN;

AVES; CICONIIFORMES; DIOMEDEA EXULANS; PROCELLARIIFORMES;

EID: 0033135655     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1083     Document Type: Article

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